The Good Ones Play Tiny Desk (At Home)
Last month, Rwanda’s The Good Ones premiered their newest song “Soccer (Summer 1988)” via NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series. Writes Bob Boilen, “This is the tiniest of Tiny Desk (home) concerts, a single song, recorded in Rwanda by The Good Ones. In 2019, the band’s album RWANDA, you should be loved was one of my […]
Lido Pimienta Plays Tiny Desk (At Home)
Lido Pimienta‘s Tiny Desk Concert (At Home) went online last week. “Backed up by a bevy of international musicians based in her new home of Toronto,” writes Bob Boilen, “Pimienta’s quartet of songs challenge the concept of just what qualifies as ‘Latin music’ in a way that both honors and expands tradition. There is added […]
New Music From The Shilohs
A rock band in the timeless sense of the term, The Shilohs always take a song-first approach delivered with to-the-point sincerity. Johnny Payne (vocals/guitar), Mike Komaszczuk (vocals/guitar), Daniel Colussi (vocals/bass) and Ben Frey (drums) formed in 2008 with a drive to write “short, snappy pop songs” in contrast to the slower stoner rock that predominated […]
New York Music Daily Places Dennis Davison Among The Best Of 2020
According to New York Music Daily, Dennis Davison has “always been a solid guitarist and distinctively articulate singer, but it turns out he’s competent on bass, drums and keys as well.” The site recently took a dive into The Book Of Strongman, which the former Jigsaw Seen guitarist and singer released this month, and compared […]
Random Lengths News Interviews Sunny War, Who Will Be Playing A Virtual Festival Soon Along With B. Wurtz, Particle Kid, Kronos Quartet, and more
Random Lengths News reports that “musicians and poets from across the United States, Canada and Latin America will hold court from Oct. 28 through 31 at the Tune In Festival presented by the Center for the Art of Performance, also known as CAP UCLA.” Lots of A man A plan A canal-associated acts are participating, […]
New Music From Pluralone
Amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic, political unrest, and wildfires raging across the western United States, Josh Klinghoffer hunkered down and found the inspiration to complete the sophomore album for his latest project, Pluralone. The release, aptly titled I Don’t Feel Well, comes on the heels of Pluralone’s critically-acclaimed debut album, To Be One […]
Atwood Magazine Makes Inara George’s Duet With Dave Grohl An “Editor’s Pick”
Inara George‘s “Sex In Cars” – the Road Angel Project version, featuring Dave Grohl – is an Editor’s Pick over at Atwood Magazine. “The stirring duet between Inara George and Dave Grohl is a breathtaking release from innocence filled with intimacy, movement, and space,” Atwood writes. “Pulsing and tender, the recording adds a burst of […]
When The Horn Blows Says L.A. Witch Is The Coolest Band In The World
When The Horn Blows calls L.A. Witch “the world’s coolest band,” delighting in the fact that they “are back with their sophomore LP Play with Fire. Its simple, no b.s. attitude is perfect for anyone looking for a great new rock n’ roll album to check out. If L.A. Witch is a new name for you, […]
Redbrick Says Phil Elverum Achieves “A Lot With A Little” On The Microphones in 2020
In a review of The Microphones in 2020, Redbrick’s Ben Forsdick admits that the new release from Phil Elverum has a long, repetitive intro that might be challenging for some listeners. However, he contends, “as this piece progresses past the opening passage, there is little else to complain of.” Forsdick hails Elverum’s “consistently vivid” lyrical […]
The Flaming Lips Play A Bubble Show and Plan More
A couple weeks ago, Pitchfork reported that The Flaming Lips were planning a “bubble concert,” during which audience members would be encased in the same hamster ball-style plastic bubbles that frontman Wayne Coyne has long used for crowd-surfing fun. Then, last week the band showed up on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert for a […]
Magnet Shares Dennis Davison’s “Auras” Clip
Magnet Magazine writes that Dennis Davison, longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated garage-psych heroes The Jigsaw Seen, “has always made music that’s firmly rooted in the past while always looking toward the future. Take Book Of Strongman track ‘Auras.’ Both the song and its accompanying video will appeal to Miller Lite-ingurgitating millennials as well as their […]
Seattle Times Loves Naked Giants’ The Shadow
The Seattle Times has a loving review of local trio Naked Giants’ new LP The Shadow. “Over a two-year stretch, the frenetic garage rockers pulled double duty on the road with Car Seat Headrest, opening for the Seattle indie-rock heavyweights and joining Car Seat’s touring band as its crowds grew from clubs to theaters. As […]
New Music From The Good Ones
In November of 2019, The Good Ones released their critically acclaimed third album Rwanda, You Should Be Loved, which was produced by Grammy-winner Ian Brennan and featured guest collaborations with Wilco’s Nels Cline, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Fugazi’s Joe Lally, Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, and more. The Good Ones also embarked on their first ever […]
Lido Pimienta Is Nominated For A Latin Grammy And Shortlisted For The Polaris Prize
Lido Pimienta‘s Miss Colombia has been nominated for “Best Alternative Album” at the Latin Grammys! We can’t say we’re surprised… after all, Pimienta is already a Polaris Music Prize winner for 2017 La Papessa, and she’s on the shortlist for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize to be announced next Monday, October 19. Of course, the […]
Beat Highlights Bananagun As Among The Best In Melbourne
Beat Magazine has highlighted Bananagun‘s “People Talk Too Much” as one of the best songs by a Melbourne-based artist to be released in 2020. The mag writes glowingly about the entirety of the album from which it’s culled. “One of the most anticipated Melbourne albums of the year came by way of psych pop collective […]
QRO Mag Gives The Nod To The Flaming Lips
“Last year,” QRO Mag reminds us, “masters of the indie-spectacular The Flaming Lips released King’s Mouth, a psychedelic journey that finally matched up to their amazing live shows and such classic turn-of-the-millennium records of theirs as The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Well, the amazing live band can’t shoot their confetti cannons […]
Popmatters Reviews The Microphones In 2020
According to Popmatters, “Phil Elverum‘s music, both as Mount Eerie and his earlier project The Microphones, exudes myth without fabricating image. He doesn’t sell listeners on an ideology or a way of life, though he details the mundanity of day-to-day life with lines alternatingly simple and metaphorically charged, promoting nothing save for quiet introspection. He […]
New Music From B. Wurtz
New York-based artist B. Wurtz, born in Pasadena, California in 1948, has made a name for himself over the past four decades by transforming the minutiae of daily life into poetic sculptures, drawings, and assemblages. Yet the renowned visual artist is also a musician who began studying piano as a child and taught himself guitar […]
Treble Premieres Figg’s New Clip
Recently, Gilden Tunador of the band Figg gave Treble Zine an intimate look into the lyrical inspiration behind “Bundleweed Motherwort,” a standout track on their self-titled debut LP. “The lyrics were inspired in part,” she says, “by N.C. Wyeth’s painting ‘The Giant,’ which is of Wyeth’s children and his pupil, William Engle, playing on the […]
Bumming On Quar? WLUW Says, “Try L.A. Witch!”
WLUW in Chicago says the new album from L.A. Witch can kill the quarantine blues. "Staring at the same walls for days on end as I complete Zoom calls and endless reading assignments has made me desperate to feel something, anything," wrote reviewer Josie Stahler, describing a feeling that's likely familiar to many of her […]
